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Elizabeth A Terhune

Elizabeth Terhune is a biomedical scientist at the University of Colorado Anschutz, freelance writer, and editor for the campus researcher newsletter, The PhD Post. She spends most of her free time chasing her toddler around or writing about sandworms.

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Teenage Neurogenesis

It was 17:45 on a Friday, and Abby-Gale and Lucy were finishing their second shift in the cleanroom at Earth's First Aerospace, Inc. The brightly-lit room smelled strongly of 70% ethanol, and hummed with the whir of the HEPA filtration system that wove intricately through the…